I asked the question of whether we need to be afraid of economic issues in my last blog. I have just finished reading Jeff Goodell’s latest contribution to Rolling Stones “The End of Australia” in which he lays out the natural disasters that have hit Australia in recent years. If Goodell is right and the fires, the floods and the droughts that have ravaged Australia in recent years are indeed the result of global warming then economic issues rather pale into insignificance. Do not read this article just before bed.